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Thursday, October 12, 2017
Advocacy Alert: Important Historic Preservation Incentive at Risk
Much of this information comes from the National Trust for Historic Preservation Please join Historic Salem in supporting the Federal Historic Tax Credit. There is a real possibility that the...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Advocacy Alert: NRCC Project Review of 18 Franklin Street (Currently Ferris Auto Service)
What’s Happening: On Thursday September 7 at 7:00pm at 120 Washington Street in the 3rd Floor conference room the Planning Board is holding a Public Hearing to review a proposed...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Advocacy Alert UPDATE: No (immediate) zoning changes for Derby Street
After considering the arguments for and against the zoning change on Derby Street, the Planning Board voted 6 to 1 to not support rezoning until the Downtown Renewal District boundaries...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
65 Washington Street “Salem District Court” Building Schematic Design Review and Vote
What’s Happening: On Wednesday, July 26 at 6:00 p.m. at 120 Washington Street, 3rd Floor Conference Room, there will be a joint meeting of the Design Review Board and the...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
A new life for 289 Derby
Starting tonight, the city, in collaboration with Creative Salem & Salem Public Space Project, is hosting a series of Placemaking events to determine the future of the vacant lot at...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
2017 Preservation Award Recipients
Each year, Historic Salem, Inc. (HSI) invites the community to celebrate excellence in preservation by nominating outstanding restoration and renovation projects for our Preservation Awards. Whether a meticulous home restoration,...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
The Civic Value of Public Space
We treasure our historic buildings in Salem. We love taking them in as we stroll by on foot, imagining them in their original context. The public spaces and passageways that...
Monday, April 3, 2017
The Lewis Hunt House
Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the Lewis Hunt House, one of Salem’s lost architectural treasures, is that it survived long enough to be photographed. The two-and-a-half story first period...
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Book Club on April 13th
We’re currently reading “The Past & Future City” by Stephanie Meeks, the President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In it, Meeks explains the critical importance of preservation for...
Monday, March 20, 2017
The Hood Ice Cream Plant
Nestled behind a row of houses on Mason Street and a row of businesses on Commercial Street sits an industrial building that is, for the moment, empty. It started life...
